Harry and Meghan’s Netflix show is worse than the Royals could ever imagine

At the end of the sixth episode of the interminable, grotesquely self-indulgent wallow in self-pity and score-settling that constitutes Netflix’s Harry and Meghan, a single thought dominates: we’ve been had.

After all the months of hype and expectation, building up to a frenzy over the past few weeks – with every trailer for the show being scrutinised as if it was going to reveal some dark secret – the final judgement on this deeply unimpressive, prurient series has to be that it is nothing more than a cynical exercise in presenting a deeply partisan account of two obviously troubled and unhappy people’s lives: their truth, if you will.

From an entertainment perspective, if that’s the appropriate expression, the second batch of episodes is slightly more watchable than the first one. The media are criticised again, with the Daily Mail blamed for Meghan suffering a miscarriage.